V-J Day security plans under review amid bomb plot claims


August 9, 2015

Security plans for the V-J Day anniversary celebrations are under review amid reports of a possible plot by British jihadists to target the parade, with fears large numbers of spectators could now stay away.

British-based terrorists linked to Syria are plotting a Boston Marathon-style bomb attack during the event a Sunday newspaper reported.

Tens of thousands of people and around 1,000 veterans of the Far East campaign are expected to take to the streets of central London on Saturday, for the 70th anniversary of the end of the war.

 

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